Season 2 Trailer

School Colors

Brooklyn Deep

Politics, Education, Government, News

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

School Colors is back! Season 2 premieres this week, presented by NPR's Code Switch. To listen, hop over to the Code Switch feed. In Season 1, hosts Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman reported from their home turf in Central Brooklyn. Season 2 is all about Queens. Queens is often touted as the most ethnically diverse place in the world. So why would a school district in the middle of Queens need a diversity plan? And why would diversity planning be met with such intense parent opposition? Listen to School Colors only in the Code Switch feed starting Wednesday, May 4.

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all? It's Mark. And Max, we have an exciting announcement to make. This week,
0:05.9	we're dropping a new season of school colors. To listen, you're going to need to hop over to the feed
0:11.0	of a different podcast, Code Switch from NPR. Code Switch is NPR's flagship podcast about race and culture.
0:17.7	It was Apple Podcast's show of the year in 2020,
0:21.7	and they will be hosting all nine episodes of Season 2 of School Colors.
0:26.3	Well, moving on up.
0:27.7	The first episode drops on Wednesday, May 4th.
0:30.0	Here's a preview of what you're going to hear.
0:35.8	It's a Thursday night in December 2019.
0:39.0	We're in a nondescript government building in Jamaica, Queens,
0:42.3	in a meeting room with a drop ceiling and fluorescent lights.
0:45.7	And the room is packed.
0:48.6	Every chair is filled, and parents are standing in the back and on the sides.
0:52.4	There are many more crowded in the hallway just outside the door.
0:55.0	I know you guys are not going to be able to get in.
0:57.3	Then you need to cancel. This is a meeting of the Community Education Council for
1:05.8	School District 28.
1:06.9	You shouldn't have 40 seats available for all of Queens. District 28. That's ridiculous.
1:13.6	What exactly were these parents so riled up about?
1:16.6	We're going to make it sure that you guys don't get this plan done.
1:19.6	District 28 was selected by the city to get something called a diversity plan.
1:23.6	You're pitting families in Queens against each other because there's not enough good schools.
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